Auschwitz 1 Day Tour from Warsaw

Sightseeing  :  Poland  :  Masovian Voivodeship  :  Warsaw  :  Day Trips

In this full-day tour from Warsaw, pay your respects to Auschwitz which has become a primary symbol of the Holocaust. Feel the weight of history visiting network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich.Auschwitz has become a primary symbol of the Holocaust. It was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. The collection of the museum contains original documents, suitcases, shoes and other belongings of murdered prisoners. There you will find original fences, wooden watchtowers and railway ramps have been preserved.

The tour also includes a short ride to Birkenau camp, which functioned as a war camp, extermination camp and place from people were sent to labour in Nazi Germany. More than 90 per cent of prisoners, mostly Jews, were killed there. Birkenau was mostly destroyed by the retreating Germans.